Lebogang Mkhize

Goalkeeper - Black Aces
20 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Lebogang Mkhize

107 Edition

The Black Aces Herald

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Simphiwe Selepe puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Black Aces, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

No end in sight to Black Aces's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Black Aces has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Only the photograph left for Bradley Jali

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bradley Jali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Black Aces the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jayden Adams

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Jayden Adams in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Black Aces this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Lebogang Mkhize

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Transfer targets

No deal for Williams Mokotjo at that price

Black Aces offered $15.0K; Platinum Stars said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Words at Black Aces training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Phakamani Mahlambi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets

Black Aces rebuffed over Andile Modiba

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Jomo Cosmos have kept their man, and Black Aces go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

Back issues
98 Edition

The Black Aces Herald

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bongani Mkhize

24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Black Aces lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Bradley Jali has said yes to Polokwane City

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Black Aces have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Black Aces say no — this time

The offer from Remo Stars for Simphiwe Selepe was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Bongani Lorch puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Black Aces, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Shaun Els is a medical away from Black Aces

The deal with Kaizer Chiefs is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

Bidvest Wits join the queue for Teboho Grobler

Add another name to the list: Bidvest Wits have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Teboho Grobler. The answer from Black Aces has not changed — yet.

Squad

A falling-out at Black Aces

Itumeleng Zwane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Black Aces make their move for Williams Mokotjo

$15.0K on the table at Platinum Stars. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Phakamani Mahlambi falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief